Книги, похожие на «Desmond Bagley, The Snow Tiger»

Agatha Christie’s seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed.But when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the village with a friend for Christmas, offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man…

One choice: run…or die. It is a time of austerity. Financial cuts are biting hard and the once great City of Liverpool finds itself now almost bankrupt. At the eleventh hour funding is found in the form of enigmatic billionaire Kirk Bovind, a religious zealot, determined to change the moral fibre and bring salvation to the streets.Against this backdrop a man disappears without trace. Solitary lawyer, Erasmus Jones, agrees to track the missing Stephen down, but quickly discovers that this is more than just a missing person case. Men are being brutally murdered across the city and Erasmus discovers that Bovind, the murdered men and Stephen once knew each other as boys…How long can the past be kept secret? How long can secrets stay hidden? And who will be the next to die…? Look out for Book 2 in the Erasmus Jones series: Sudden DeathPraise for Phil Kurthausen“This pulls you in at 100 mph. [The] sense of place is terrific. A great central character. I love Erasmus Jones.” – Mark Billingham“Totally un-putdownable.. Quite Outstanding.” – Jeffrey Archer"Wonderfully written, tightly written, Erasmus Jones is like Jack Reacher. Wonderful." – Cathy Kelly“I read ahead of myself. Just cracking. Macabre, brilliant.” – Penny Smith